And it does turn up, although at first we see hardly anything — only a trailing leg as it vanishes into the corn, green on green, out of the corner of our eye.
Yet voters in the A.P. poll have sent this harsh message: to remain on top, a team can hardly afford to trail after any quarter, much less at the finish.
Juliette is hardly an American ingénue out of Henry James, trailing American innocence into an exotic, ancient land.
Mall REITs are trailing the rest, albeit with a hardly disgraceful 18% thus far in 2006.
At the outset of the campaign, Fianna Fail was trailing in the polls, and matters could hardly have been worse.
Chapple has forged a gunslinging career, setting records with his arm, and his final collegiate pass Saturday, with Harvard trailing Yale with less than five minutes remaining, could hardly have been more precise.
It seemed hardly credible that England trailed by only three points at the end of a first session that took the breath away.
She followed up with, "I hardly... .. Her voice trailed off.
Then, in a tone so soft he could hardly be heard, Mr. Burress said, "I want to apologize to my family," his voice trailing off.
But with the S&P 500 selling at more than 35 times trailing earnings, having a dividend yield of just 1.3% and having a price-to-book ratio of more than six, the U.S. market hardly looks cheap.
Facing that kind of pitcher in Detroit's Comerica Park, trailing by two games to none in a best-of-seven series, is hardly the way for the Yankees to come out of a slump that has imperiled their championship ambitions.
